Cesar Jung-Harada
Founder and Director, MakerBay
Mr Jung-Harada is a French-Japanese designer, environmentalist, educator, and entrepreneur, who is passionate about ocean technology, impact innovation, and education. While serving as Associate Professor of Design at the Singapore Institute of Technology where he teaches innovation, design thinking, and social entrepreneurship, and mentors ocean engineering projects, he is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Design and Ocean Innovation at CNAM, France. Mr Jung-Harada’s multi-faceted background includes roles as Director of MakerBay Ltd. (Hong Kong Makerspace), founder of ocean robotic startup Scoutbots Ltd., and Trustee of the board of HBKU (Qatar), the Wyng Foundation (Hong Kong). A regular speaker at international conferences organised by the UN, Harvard and TED, his most popular TED talk garnered over 1.8 million views and was translated into more than 30 languages.
Keynote Lecture 15 – Harmonising Nature And Purpose – Imagining Our Future Ocean
We cannot make a better world if we cannot imagine it. Kids have the most imagination, yet we don’t include them in making decisions, and we don’t take them seriously. Same goes for most indigenous population, even if we know they are the largest contributors to environmental conservation. What if we could work with the youth and indigenous people to imagine and build a sustainable and prosperous relationship with the ocean?
In this talk, Prof Cesar Jung-Harada from the Singapore Institute of Technology will talk about his Open Art & Science work with young students, indigenous people, sensing ocean plastic, mapping coral reefs with robotics and AI, and his recent work in floating solar hydrogen production in Indonesia. If we want a healthy ocean, we need to include everyone, especially those who will have to bear the consequences the longest time – the youth – and those who will be hit the hardest – the indigenous.
